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Seasonal Glories The Focus Of New Pond Farm Art Show WEST REDDING — New Pond Farm, an award-winning educational center and working farm in West Redding, is showing the work of a number of regional artists, including Ruth Newquist and Mar...

Rooster Rally Will Be Something To Crow About To the Editor: Sitting atop the Newtown Meeting House, right next to our flagpole, is the famous gilded rooster that has become synonymous with the brightness and cheer in Newtown. As far back as to when...

Quite A Turnaround ... Kromberg Earns MVP Honors As Hawks Cap Improbable Run By Andy Hutchison BETHEL — Seeded eighth, the underdog Newtown High School baseball team could not have been expected to go all the way in the South-West Confer...

Theater Review— A Culture’s Fading Institutions, At Westport Country Playhouse By Julie Stern WESTPORT — Designed by James Noone, the setting for A.R. Gurney’s Children is a sprawling, weathered, slight...

A Look Through The Windows Of American Art, June 8 With Alma Kearns If the eyes are said to be the windows into a person’s soul, surely a nation’s art must be windows into its character. Newtown Historical Society will look th...

Newtown Support Groups Friday, June 5         AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.   Saturday, June 6        Daily Reflections meeting, St Rose School (Monsignor Con...

Defibrillator Fundraiser A Success At NUMC By Kendra Bobowick Sticky hands, suntans, and tank tops make up children’s summer days. Starting early on the season was Rory Coon who rolled through the Newtown United Methodist Church parking l...

Milton Hackett US Navy Veteran Milton S. “Bud” Hackett, 75, of Wakefield, R.I., and formerly of Newtown, died on May 30. He was the beloved husband of Madeline (Boucher) Hackett. Born in Bridgeport, Mr Hackett was the son...

IPN Reworks Bylaws After State Party Fails To Act By John Voket Bruce Walczak, a town police commissioner and chairman of the Independent Party of Newtown (IPN), filed a revised set of bylaws with the town on behalf of the aspiring minor party on May...